Word: woos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fame, like a wayward girl, will still be coy to those who woo her with too slavish knees...
...report. The present Governor, Richard Webster Leche, has everything lined up for appointment to the Federal bench when a new judgeship is created "to clear crowded dockets." In some quarters Governor Leche was thought to be the man who quietly arranged the Court decision, for he is trying to woo back to the State some of the industries which Long laws drove away and by the Court decision he could help to reassure them without offending the gullible electorate which still worships the murdered Huey. Whatever the explanation, it was undeniable that the dead hand of Long was losing...
...upon emerging but permitted to leave Spain "under guarantees of safety." ¶ Most heartening words which the battered League has heard in years came last week at Lyons from French Premier Leon Blum. His speech, while proposing nothing specific, was an overture of goodwill toward Germany, hopefully intended to woo Der Führer out of any intention he may have to shake Europe with another violent deed before the Reichstag meets at Adolf Hitler's call Jan. 30. "Our objective," cried Premier Blum, "is for a settlement of European problems as a whole. . . . We are members...
...prominent entries for place as man of the year with strong boosters for each of them. There was Cleopatra, who it would seem was a woman of unusual charm; there was her boy friend, Mark Antony, so fascinated by her that he was neglecting affairs of public business to woo her; and there was one Novresibus, an officeholder who had just been re-elected in a landslide in which he had received 99 & 44/100 percent of the votes in his district the preceding ides of November...
...with Life's sale, its publishers last week told its readers that henceforth they would get Judge instead of Life. With the circulation of the oldest funsheet in the U. S. thus doubled, Judge, control of which last week passed to new and unknown owners, set out to woo Life's old contributors and advertisers, make Life's old subscribers feel as much at home as possible...